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I know that Tamarillos grow here in Tassie (we have an old stoner Californian hippy friend who grows one) but they suffer badly from the frost and get knocked for 6 every time winter hits. I need to confess something here. I HATE them. I am a most stoic vegan who is very good at eating everything on her plate. Throw broad beans and Brussells sprouts at me and I am in heaven but tamarillos are not my idea of fun food. My daughter adores them and so when I found 2 on the side of the road (tamarillo fruits, not daughters 😉 ) I gave them to her. She has just decided that she is going to grow food in her garden. Good luck to her, she can have them 😉

Am building an shade house with 2 layers of 90% UV rate, where I want desperately to plant 2 Avocados and 2 Tamarillo + 1 or 2 Blueberry bushes which should do for frost also…Love to give it a go as winter store, gem or preserved in some way.
If I won’t like them, will get rid of it. 😀

We have several avo’s that we grew from seed here that we are going to plant out. We know of a large avo tree in Launceston C.B.D that produces lots of fruit every year and we have a milder climate out here on the river than Launceston does so we figure, in for a penny in for a pound! We also grew some mangoes from seed and are going to plant them out as well. We have some carob (from seed) some chestnuts, walnuts and hazelnuts (also from seed…are you starting to get a picture here? 😉 )…a food forest needs food that will grow easily and we figure if it grew from seed it would have the best chance at surviving in our local conditions as it has gone through a few years of acclimatisation rather than straight over the strait and having to go through shell shock before it even gets a chance to go through transplant shock ;). Good luck with those tamarillo’s, lots of people love them. Same goes for pepino that people rave about but is just a bit “blah” to me. I will eat them though unlike tamarillo’s that I actively avoid whenever politely possible and both are very easy to grow. Let us all know how you go growing them this year, it’s an experiment and we LOVE experiments 🙂

Wowwww….That is it …LUCK is all I need..Thanks …It is getting colder and colder every year here.
Heavy ( Black ) Frost and even snow in my vicinity coming fast Out West N.S.W……Global warming I presume ???…lol….. 😀 😀

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